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"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid."
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"When it comes to perfection, the most that we could possibly do is to continuously push closer and closer to it. It is truly something to aim at, just to see how close you could get to it."

"If you want to do something better, do it with profound love."

"Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today."

"Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time."

"When you feel unsatisfied in your life, you must immediately take action to change your perspective, thoughts, and activity. If you stay longer than necessary in your unhappy state you will find yourself sinking deeper and deeper into misery. Fortunately, no matter how deep you fall into dissatisfaction you will always be able to change your life for the better through positive action."

"But if we are talking in terms of making progress in life, we must understand that "good enough" is very different from "best."

"Resolutions are popular because everyone feels they could use a little improvement."

"Every year I try to keep in excellent shape and improve some part of my game. I play in the offseason overseas to keep my game tuned up and hopefully improve a little in some area."

"To become a better you, don't dream of becoming a superior over other people. Dream of becoming a superior over your previous achievements."

"When does the external work improve? It improves when inner peace is attained."
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"It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting."

"You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself."

"When you do anything from a clear judgment that it ought to be done, never shrink from being seen to do it, even though the world should misunderstand it; for if you are not acting rightly, shun the action itself; if you are, why fear those who wrongly censure you?"

"Man, what are you talking about? Me in chains? You may fetter my leg but my will, not even Zeus himself can overpower."

"It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body, for it is better to die than to live badly."

"Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public."
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